The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-05-20

the income from tine Tunu productivity Ua6
sale of these lands, 3nd the annual railroad
tax will be nearly, il not quite. sufficient TO
meet the annual state and educational ex
penditures, leaving only light, local and mu-
nicipal assessments to be levied upon the
property of residents and non-residents
The cessation of the political aud local feuds
in the territory during the present year has
done great deal to disarm preiudices which
these conflicts had produced in the minds of
those charged with the management Of trust
companies and savings banks in the eastern
section Of the country. These gentlemen
are always suspicious of communities so
divided in opinions that their differences, In
exaggerated form, reach all parts of the
country through the press. The last legis-
lative assembly and the present executive
evidently recognized the necessity Of set
tling all questions which might affect in any
way the financial integrity of the territory.
Ex-Goy. EDMUNDs.
Hon. Newton Edmunds, governor of the
territory from 1868 to 1866, who has con-
tinued TO reside in the territory, writes as
follows:
Il beg to say that, having been resident
of Dakota for the past twentY-six years, and
being reasonably well acquainted with the
states and territories of the West and North
west, am fully prepared to say that no
state or territory presents equal facilities
with Dakota forinvestment for profit; where
real property more rapidly appreciates in
value, or where improvements are more
rapidly and cheaply made. Southern Dakota
possesses a climate and soil fully equal to
Central Illinois for diversified agriculture.
The soil is deep, rich, warm and productive,
and is well covered with heavy growth of
sweet and nutritious grasses, on which stock
fatten with great rapidity and at very slight
cost Central Dakota has a climate and soil
fully equal to Northern Illinois, and success
fully produces all the varieties of crops
that are grown in the northern portion Of
that state Northern Dakota is similar in
climate and has a soil far superior to South
ern Wisconsin and Central Minnesota, and
surpasses them in the agricultural produc-
tions peculiar TO those states Dakota is un-
surpassed in healthfulness of climate by any
sections of the Northwestern states and ter
rttories"
JUDGE A J. EDGERToN's OPINION
Ex-Chief Justice Edgerton writes as fol-
lows:
/ know of no state or territory which offers
so many inducements for settlement to the
industrious poor man as Dakota This terri
tory, according to the United States census,
ranks among the first four states Of the
union In the intelligence of its inhabitants
The efforts the people have made here TO ed
ucate the young is marvel Without any
and from public grants we have a complete
system of free schools in successful opera
tion. Our climate is about the same as Wis
consin and Minnesota; in the winter some
what rigorous, but at all seasons healthy
Our soil is q rich loan, very quick and very
fertile. While wheat may be said TO be the
great staple of this territory, yet in South
Dakota corn is produced easily and is rsa-
sonably sure crop | believe that portions
of Bon Homme, Yankton, Clay and Union
counties will produce as much corn per acre
as the most favored districts of Indiana
saw two years ago, on Mr. Pearsons farm,
two miles from Yankton, a field of 200 acres
of corn which yielded that year 80 bushels
per acre, and a field of $50 acres of oats
which yielded 90 bushels per acre While
perhaps excelled by the Red river valley in
the yield of wheat and the lower Missouri
in the yield of corn, no country renders in
the aggregate surer and more ample returns
to the husbandman than this portion of Da-
kota of those great staples which oonduce to
prosperity. For diversified husbandry Gen.
tral Dakota is unrivaled A commonwealth
with such people and such climate and
soil must force ample recognition at an early
day, Notwithstanding the present attitude OF
congress- the result Of either stupidity, partt-
zanship or disloyalty.
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